Leading article: A depressingly predictable attack on asylum-seekers - Leading Articles, Opinion - The Independent

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-depressingly-predictable-attack-on-asylumseekers-1764522.html

It is no secret that a public spending crunch is on the way. And it seems one target for cuts has already been identified: asylum-seekers' benefits. As we report today, the UK Border Agency proposes to reduce the weekly subsistence payments to those waiting for a verdict on their asylum application from £42.16 to £35.13.

That asylum-seekers would be the first to suffer as a result of spending cuts was depressingly predictable. Refugees

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